The results which were announced last Wednesday have raised various doubts on the selection process regarding certain posts.

In the newsroom, only two out of six applicants for the six posts of Journalists/Editors were chosen, and only one out of seven applicants was chosen for the two posts of News Co-ordinator.

Likewise, none of the technical people in the radio programmes department have been retained.

It has been claimed that some people should not have been chosen since they did not have the qualifications required in the call for applications.

They should have been disqualified instead, sources at PBS told The Malta Independent on Sunday.

Moreover, people who were described as “hopeless” were appointed to higher posts than they had in the ‘old’ PBS. These claims were made with particular reference to the sales and accounts departments.

The agreement signed between the General Workers’ Union (GWU) and the government on 24 April stipulates that there should be an external call for applications for the non-managerial posts if these are not filled internally.

While the results of the internal interviews for the non-managerial posts have been published, the results of the interviews for the four managers at PBS have not.

However, the unofficial choices of three of the managers have already caused controversy at PBS.

As announced in last Sunday’s paper, Sylvana Cristina has been nominated Manager Programming (which includes archives), Costantino Abela – Manager Operations and Stephen Azzopardi – Manager Corporate Services. Nobody has been named Manager News and Registered Editor so far.

Sources say that one of the unsuccessful applicants for the post of Manager Programming, who is currently a PBS member of staff, has lodged a complaint about the selection process at Ministerial level.

So further developments on this issue might follow sources said.

At the end of the whole process, PBS will have 64 employees as against the 178 it had up to last April.